Wherever the waters of transformation flow, real progress takes place: knowledge is created, educators are developed, alliances are strengthened, and concrete change is driven.
Our commitment is to build an antiracist public education system where no one is left behind.
Mobilizations of the black movement for access to education for the black population. Black movement and allies win legislation that establishes mandatory teaching of African, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and adequate curricula in Brazilian education (law 10.639/03 and law 11.645/08)
ActionAid, Ação Educativa, National Campaign for the Right to Education, CONAQ, Geledés, Makira-E’ta and UNEafro join forces in the SETA Project, which is chosen as one of the five finalists in the 2030 global racial equity challenge launched by the Foundation W.K. Kellogg. Beginning of the project with its articulation, training and research axes generates strategic partnerships with education departments, establishes an Advisory Board, carries out a bibliographic review on research in the area of education and race, and launches the audiovisual series “SETA: possible paths for anti-racist education” in partnership with Canal Futura and airing on Globoplay.
SETA launches research on student unions and deepening inequalities for black girls during the pandemic, begins training of educators in Rio de Janeiro, establishes partnership with the University of Bristol in the UK for international mapping of anti-racist educational methodologies, and participates in sessions of the UN Permanent Forum of People of African Descent.
SETA launches public opinion survey “Perceptions about racism in Brazil” in partnership with Instituto Peregum, publishes commemorative stamp for the 20th anniversary of law 10.639/03, conducts workshops with young people to prepare anti-racist glossary and builds its monitoring and evaluation system.
Mobilize the international agenda around the importance of racial and gender equity in education, through participation in UN meetings and thematic reports; expose the racial, gender, and territorial inequalities experienced by Black, Indigenous, and Quilombola peoples; produce reference materials to support the implementation of the theme; train educators and young people on the subject; and develop ongoing communication initiatives to engage in dialogue with society.
It is one of five awardees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Challenge 2030 – an open call aimed at driving an equitable future for children, families and communities around the world. SETA was granted funds for eight years of work to consolidate the pioneering mission of developing the first anti-racist public education system in the country.
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Structural racism in Brazil has systemically hindered access to the right to equal and quality public education by black, quilombola and indigenous students. The quality of education that children receive in Brazil is deeply segmented by racial and socioeconomic status. And, today, it is identified that the gaps between white children and black, quilombola and indigenous children, in all basic education indicators, are persistent and more serious for young people aged 11 to 17. Black, quilombola and indigenous children and young people are the most likely to drop out of school, have higher exclusion rates and have lower educational levels. Therefore, they are assigned the less prestigious and lower-paying jobs as adults. Meanwhile, white students internalize the racial inequities they are exposed to in schools and replicate them as adults. When looking at learning indicators, it is also concluded that there are not only more barriers to accessing school for black, quilombola and indigenous children, but that once at school, these children are less likely to access quality education.
The SETA Project seeks to carry out transformative actions based on evidence resulting from studies that help to understand the complexity of racial relations in the country and the resulting problems that need to be faced. In this sense, it foresees a series of studies with national and regional perspectives in its territories of intervention, especially in Amazonas, Maranhão, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The objective is to map the perception of society in general, of education professionals and students about racism, racial inequalities in general and in education, the effectiveness of policies to combat racism, the gaps in tools and methodologies to promote racial equity and successful strategies and good national and international practices that can inspire actions to value diversity and differences and mitigate inequalities, especially in the area of education.
1) Biannual public mapping survey on perceptions of racism in Brazilian society.
2) Biannual focus groups on school communities’ perceptions of racism.
3) Monitoring and evaluation of educational indicators with analysis of education indicators focusing on race, gender and territory.
4) Studies led by the organizations that make up the SETA Project on “indigenous school education”, “quilombola school education”, “educational trajectory of black girls”, “black youth, education and violence”, “impact of secondary education reform on deepening of educational inequalities” and “participatory construction of indicators and diagnosis on quality in education and racial relations”.
All of these productions are/will be made publicly available to assist society in the construction of qualified narratives, based on the portrait of reality, in defense of racial equity in education, in addition to guiding project actions.
THE SETA PROJECT – EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR AN ANTI-RACIST TRANSFORMATION IS A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, SINCE 2021, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTING TOGETHER FOR AN ANTI-RACIST AND QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION.
